Tuesday, January 29, 2013

January Meetup

We had a great presentation and introduction into +Ingress by +Anna Kastlunger. She made the essential terms like XM, Portal, Resonator, XMP Burster easy to understand. Really a great way of starting to play Ingress! She then shared invite codes with interested members (and yes, we still have some - just comment on this post on G+!)

Afterwards +Sergii Kauk showed the various ways of authorizing requests to Google APIs: OAuth 2.0 (the only non-deprecated way), OAuth 1.0, AuthSub, and Client Login (including application-specific passwords). He also went into the details of 2-legged OAuth 1.0 for Google Apps and the specifics of service accounts for OAuth 2.0 and the use of the API console.

Then we had a lightning talk by +Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ: why you should have your own domain. Not only is your own domain more beautiful with maybe a cryptic number at your internet provider, but it also allows your services and email addresses to be portable - they go with your when you change the ISP. And he then went into the details of OpenID which allows to have your own identity server hosted by you.